CALM and articulate, sweating slightly, Tony Griffin was a relaxed figure in the tunnel under the Mackey Stand in the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

About 2,000 protesters calling for the resignation of East Timor’s prime minister cruised around parliament in a convoy of horn-blaring trucks and motorcycles today, hours after mobs set buildings on fire and looted a warehouse filled with farm supplies.

THE Irish drug gang did not realise the Portuguese police were on to them for the last six months.

THE sole foreign member of an Irish gang suspected of murdering a Cork drug dealer in Portugal and dumping his body in a fridge has told police he will end up like the deceased if he gives evidence against the other members.